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1. The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:19 JST The Tor Project

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   We're extremely excited to have ZcashOMG support in building Arti and moving Tor into a new era!

   Learn more about Arti, the roadmap, and how you can get involved here: https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

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   • The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:20 JST The Tor Project

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     Rust seems like the clearest way out of our bind. It's a high-level language & more expressive than C. It has innovative features that let the language enforce safety properties at compile-time. That's a huge win for us in programming time and for users in security & reliability.

   • The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:21 JST The Tor Project

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     Although C is venerable and ubiquitous, it's error-prone to use, and its lack of high-level features make many programming tasks more complex than they'd be in a more modern language. For us, these problems mean that programming in C is a slow and painstaking process.

   • The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:22 JST The Tor Project

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     We started Tor back around 2002, based on earlier Onion Routing designs from the mid-1990s. Since then, Tor has grown to handle millions of users around the world, and today's Tor is still written in the C programming language.

   • The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:23 JST The Tor Project

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     Some background on why Arti is important for the future of Tor: Tor is a set of protocols to provide anonymity, privacy, and censorship resistance on the Internet. Tor is also a program (in C) that provides client-side and server-side implementations of those protocols.

   • The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jul-2021 02:28:24 JST The Tor Project

     We're very happy to announce a new era in Tor: Arti, a pure-Rust Tor implementation. Thanks to funding from ZcashOMG, we can finally move the Arti project up in our priorities list! https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti